Word: hollanders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nicholas N. Sweeney '92 did not qualify for the discus finals for his native Ireland; J. Adam Holland '94 took first in the B finals of the men's pairs sculls; Cecile U. Tucker '91 took second in the B final of the women's quad sculls; and Pingtjan Thum '00 did not qualify for the finals in several swimming events for Singapore
These were astonishingly unjust, even for colonial times. Forced labor by natives, a kind of tax paid for the privilege of being ruled by Holland, was coming to an end, but expropriation of native land for sugar plantations and other industry was still common. Indonesians were without standing in civil or criminal disputes with whites, as Minke discovers when in his late teens he marries Annelies, an ethereal mixed-blood beauty. She inherits some property, and her venomous white half-brother has no trouble having the marriage declared nonexistent and sailing for Holland with both Annelies and her money...
Branson runs his conglomerate of nine divisions and more than 100 companies--the mix is churning constantly--out of an imposing Victorian mansion in London's posh Holland Park, only a few steps from his home and family. The office is surprisingly calm. He is cheerfully rumpled, slipping out of his still tied shoes (revealing a small hole in a green sock), shunning coat and tie like a squirmy 12-year-old. Bright blue eyes and a wide trust-me smile are set off by a private-island tan. Longish, turbulent, sandy hair, streaked with gray, and his trademark vandyke...
...first steps. People in the West are surprised that so many Russians don't like capitalism. But there is nothing extraordinary about this. The capitalism that came to Russia at the start of the 1990s looked different from the one constructed in Europe several centuries ago. The capitalism of Holland or Switzerland was laboriously created by the industrious and thrifty bourgeois of Rotterdam or Geneva, for whom perseverance, honesty and modesty were religious commandments, acts of faith...
...inflammatory rhetoric when he derided the Dutch policy on euthanasia. He seems to want to instill fear in an aging American population. Not only did Krauthammer willfully overlook the profound differences in the Dutch and American health systems, he also seemed to misrepresent intentionally the facts of euthanasia in Holland, implying that involuntary euthanasia is a threat there...